Re: (TV) Illegal

[Phil Obbard <pobbard@yahoo.com>]

Sounds like you have a combo CD/CD-ROM containing both music and data. When you view the disc under Windows, it only sees the data portion of the CD, not the audio (*.cda) files.

If you put the disc in your CD drive and checked the "Disc Info" item in Nero (under one of the menus -- I forget which one because I don't have the application handy as I write this), you'll see separate data and audio portions of the CD.

Try downloading ExactAudioCopy or CDEx (http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=download). Both are free, I believe, and either is a simple & quick install. Either program will be able to extract a single WAV file from the CD to your hard drive. (I believe Nero can do this, too, although I don't have a way to check right now).

--Phil





________________________________
From: Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net>
To: tv@obbard.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 5:30:45 PM
Subject: (TV) Illegal

This question/subject is probably more appropriate for the 'other'
Television List, but since that List is presently in a state of suspended
animation I'm posting it here.



Since this is potentially illegal I'll pose it as a hypothetical.



Suppose I had a commercial cd [non-Television, non-Verlaine/Lloyd] with 11
tracks, and I wanted to burn a *lossless* version of one of these tracks and
send it to someone via snail mail or via a SendSpace.com link.



Usually, I  can after inserting a cd into my D:\ (or E:\ ) drive, use some
software to convert one or more of the 11 individual cda "tracks"  I want to
corresponding individual wav file(s) and my problem is solved.  



But suppose that unlike most commercial cds which would have 11 separate cda
"files", the commercial cd in question when viewed/opened on my D:\ drive
has NO cda "files" , but only shows the following:  



1)  Autorun.inf   1KB  Setup Information File;  2) BVCP_2153.ico  51 KB
Icon File; 3) main.dxr 2,456  KB DXR File;  and 4) ZZZZZZZ.exe  3148 KB
Application File. 



Is there anyway to make a copy of just one of the tracks in such a case?
(And , of course,  I can't use software to split/edit the tracks because
they cd and hard drive doesn't have individual music files.) 



Leo



PS:  I already am aware that cda "files"  are just a "shortcut" to a track
on an audio cd in that it plays the referenced track on thecd  when opened,
and that cda files themselves do not contain actual audio data.  (But there
is software that can convert a cda 'shortcut' to a corresponding wav file.)



PPS:  Fact: Using NERO I can copy this particular commercial cd in
'one-fell-swoop' and get a 'lossless' copy of the entire album that plays
fine, but then (the copy will not have individual files for each track but
instead just contain the four files listed abobe of the originalbut).. 
--------------
To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe tv"
--------------
To post: Mail tv@obbard.com
To unsubscribe: Mail majordomo@obbard.com with message "unsubscribe tv"